This is a two part workshop... The first session is free and will cover Email Marketing Strategies. The second session is a 3 hour paid bootcamp ($30) and will cover how to use and improve your LinkedIn personal profile and build a LinkedIn Company Page.

"Flash" is a technology owned by Adobe. Many websites use Flash to show animation on their webpages. Flash is most commonly used to display photos in a slideshow. What most don't know is text in a Flash website cannot be read by Search Engines. If your website was developed with Flash, Google only sees a 1-page website with no content, just an embedded Flash file.

Responsive web design and mobile first are two concepts that have been receiving a lot of attention from the design community. While everyone’s talking about the progressive enhancement approach for designing themes, there’s been a surprising lack of talk about it from the CMS Administration end.

Recently, I was having a conversation with my girlfriend about replacing her old 13” Macbook. It’s getting up there in years and is still running Tiger OSX. Initially, she was planning on replacing it with a new 13” Macbook Pro.

Michael Kramer, founder of Santa Barbara-based Ameravant Web Design. Web developers say a proprietary content management system, such as Ameravant’s SiteNinja, can be a more secure option than an open-source option like WordPress. (Stephen Nellis photo)

It’s a small-business owner’s worst Web nightmare: A customer or business partner calls up and says your website seems to now be an ad for Viagra pills from China or just infected them with malware. You’ve been hacked.

In recent weeks, a wave of hacks have hit small business around the Tri-Counties. The Business Times reached out to Web developers around the region for advice on how small-businesses can keep their websites more secure. Experts say that even without a huge budget or a full-time webmaster, small firms can take a few easy steps to protect themselves from some of the most common hacks and recover quickly if an attack does happen.